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A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH TO DETERMINE INPUT SCHEDULES FOR ENERGY SIMULATION OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS - A statistical methodology to generate electric internal load and presence of occupancy schedules in a residential building in Milan (Italy)
Ferrando, Martina (Master thesis, 2018)Ensuring that the energy need predicted by energy modelling corresponds to the actual energy need, will be strictly important in the close future with the increase in the number of low-energy buildings and retrofitting ... -
A holistic approach to assess the exploitation of renewable energy sources for design interventions in the early design phases
Lobaccaro, Gabriele; Croce, Silvia; Daniele, Vettorato; Carlucci, Salvatore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This study presents a holistic approach applied to assess the exploitation of renewable energy sources for design interventions in the early design phases in a consolidated urban environment. Concerning the cooling season, ... -
An analysis of environmental assessment schemes and identification of their impact on building design
Bernardi, Elena (Master thesis, 2015)The aim of this thesis is to present an overview of the available environmental assessment schemes in the building field, with the final scope of making an analytic comparison of the schemes. The environmental assessment ... -
An Analysis of the Most Adopted Rating Systems for Assessing the Environmental Impact of Buildings
Bernardi, Elena; Carlucci, Salvatore; Cornaro, Cristina; Bohne, Rolf André (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Rating systems for assessing the environmental impact of buildings are technical instruments that aim to evaluate the environmental impact of buildings and construction projects. In some cases, these rating systems can ... -
An exergy analysis for Milano smart city
Causone, Francesco; Sangalli, Andrea; Pagliano, Lorenzo; Carlucci, Salvatore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Cities represent fundamental hubs in the world’s energy-flow network, and their role is expected to gain further relevance in the next decades, following the ongoing urbanization process. Reducing energy use and increasing ... -
A proposal of energy performance indicators for a reliable benchmark of swimming facilities
Kampel, Wolfgang; Carlucci, Salvatore; Aas, Bjørn; Bruland, Amund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The main research question tackled in this work is which energy performance indicator should be used to benchmark energy usage in swimming facilities. After the design and administration of a survey, data from 43 Norwegian ... -
A review of indices for assessing visual comfort with a view to their use in optimization processes to support building integrated design
Carlucci, Salvatore; Causone, Francesco; De Rosa, Francesco; Pagliano, Lorenzo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)In the last decades, several studies aimed at assessing some specified aspects of visual comfort characterizing the relationship between the human needs and the light environment, such as an available amount of light, ... -
A Review of Systems and Technologies for Smart Homes and Smart Grids
Lobaccaro, Gabriele; Carlucci, Salvatore; Löfström, Erica (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)In the actual era of smart homes and smart grids, advanced technological systems that allow the automation of domestic tasks are developing rapidly. There are numerous technologies and applications that can be installed ... -
Assessing energy-smartness in smart cities
Causone, Francesco; Sangalli, Andrea; Pagliano, Lorenzo; Carlucci, Salvatore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The massive urbanization process registered since 1950s and projected to continue for the coming decades is posing a crucial issue for the management of existing cities and the planning of future ones. Smart cities are ... -
Boosting solar accessibility and potential of urban districts in the Nordic climate: A case study in Trondheim
Lobaccaro, Gabriele; Carlucci, Salvatore; Croce, Silvia; Paparella, Rossana; Finocchiaro, Luca (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The harvesting of solar energy still encounters many barriers in Scandinavia. This paper proposes a set of solar urban planning recommendations to enhance the solar accessibility and potential and thereby increase the ... -
Empirical validation and local sensitivity analysis of a lumped-parameter thermal model of an outdoor test cell
Cattarin, Giulio; Pagliano, Lorenzo; Causone, Francesco; Kindinis, Andrea; Goia, Francesco; Carlucci, Salvatore; Schlemminger, Christian (Journal article, 2018)This paper presents the experimental validation of a thermal model describing the ZEB Test Cells Laboratory, located at the Gløshaugen campus of NTNU and SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway. Besides, a local sensitivity analysis ... -
Energy retrofit for a climate resilient child care centre
Pagliano, Lorenzo; Carlucci, Salvatore; Causone, Francesco; Moazami, Amin; Cattarin, Giulio (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Climate scientists have developed and refined climate change models on a global scale. One of the aims of these models is to predict the effects of human activities on climate, and thus the delivery of information that is ... -
Impacts of the future weather data type on the energy simulation of buildings – Investigating long-term patterns of climate change and extreme weather conditions
Moazami, Amin; Nik, Vahid; Carlucci, Salvatore; Geving, Stig (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Patterns of future climate and expected extreme conditions are pushing design limits as recognition of climate change and its implication for the built environment increases. There are a number of ways of estimating future ... -
International survey on current occupant modelling approaches in building performance simulation
O'Brien, William; Gaetani, Isabella; Gilani, Sara; Carlucci, Salvatore; Hoes, Pieter-Jan; Hensen, Jan L.M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)It is not evident that practitioners have kept pace with latest research developments in building occupant behaviour modelling; nor are the attitudes of practitioners regarding occupant behaviour modelling well understood. ... -
Multi-objective optimization of a nearly zero-energy building based on thermal and visual discomfort minimization using a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II)
Carlucci, Salvatore; Cattarin, Giulio; Causone, Francesco; Pagliano, Lorenzo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-06)Multi-objective optimization methods provide a valid support to buildings’ design. They aim at identifyingthe most promising building variants on the basis of diverse and potentially contrasting needs. However,optimization ... -
Occupancy and occupants’ actions
Schweiker, Marcel; Carlucci, Salvatore; Andersen, Rune Korsholm; Dong, Bing; O'Brien, William (Chapter, 2018)Occupants’ presence and actions within the built environment are crucial aspects related to understanding variations in energy use. Within this chapter, first, a nomenclature for the field of research dealing with occupants ... -
On occupant-centric building performance metrics
O'Brien, William; Gaetani, Isabella; Carlucci, Salvatore; Hoes, Pieter-Jan; Hensen, Jan L.M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Existing building performance metrics cover a wide variety of domains including energy performance, equipment performance, electric lighting, indoor environmental quality, capital and operating costs, and environmental ... -
Retrofit of a Kindergarten Targeting Zero Energy Balance
Causone, Francesco; Carlucci, Salvatore; Moazami, Amin; Cattarin, Giulio; Pagliano, Lorenzo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11)Old buildings that are severe energy wasters and provide low indoor environmental quality (IEQ) form a large fraction of the European building stock. These buildings represent nevertheless, an asset that should be re-evaluated ... -
Review of adaptive thermal comfort models in built environmental regulatory documents
Carlucci, Salvatore; Bai, Lujian; de Dear, Richard; Yang, Liu (Journal article, 2018)This paper presents the experimental validation of a thermal model describing the ZEB Test Cells Laboratory, located at the Gløshaugen campus of NTNU and SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway. Besides, a local sensitivity analysis ... -
Sensitivity analysis for investigating the energy performance of a retrofitted kindergarten under different weather scenarios
Eggebø, Håkon (Master thesis, 2017)Sensitivity analysis is a technique that aims at estimating how the uncertainty in the independent variables of a mathematical model effects a particular dependent variable given a predefined set of assumptions. This method ...